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Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... investment risk perspective, or whether you're taking a reputational perspective, that is, we don't want to be seen as investing in or supporting certain activities, I think that it's possible, if you're looking at it from a reputational perspective ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the ones that are the highest priority, but we will for example be articulating the barriers that constrain us from investing more in these assets," Fabian said. "We also hope to be able to give specific examples of good projects, but what we have to ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... in Austrade seminars in London about the legislation and said that there was interest from banks and investors about investing in Australia. "There was a lot of interest in that," he said. "Actually, I think you'll see a lot of overseas inters in participating ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the alternative investment bucket, where it might be sitting along other emerging sub-asset classes such as community investing or green bonds. It's niche, but an interesting investment strategy that can pick up on this very wide set of opportunities ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... will continue to become more mainstream to investment processes. Further integration of ESG factors across all areas of investing is "inevitable," said Irlicht. "The reason I think it's inevitable is because the thing about finance is that there's the ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... seriously we take ESG issues and the risks around carbon. We have a significant number of industry superannuation funds investing through us, and they have that exposure to Pacific Hydro as well as to two other low carbon assets, Ecogen Energy in Victoria ...

Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... their analysis, rather than having to re-invent the wheel." See Also: Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical's superannuation product, he said. Reflecting on how the funds management industry and sustainable investing has evolved over the years since Australian Ethical's founding, Thier noted that the idea of sustainability investing has ...

Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... emerging industries such as renewable energies. One of the key points the MSCI paper highlights as an argument in favour of investing with ESG factors in mind is the fact that universal owners are exposed to "portfolio externalities" -"spillover production ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... states. "A number of mining firms including Xstrata, Rio Tinto, Centennial, Anglo American, and BHP Billiton are already investing significant funds in the development of these new abatement technologies. The scale of the existing investment is already ...